From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <394CEDB7.7DB0D5A1@golden.net> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:41:43 -0400 From: hendricks Reply-To: khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdog.com Subject: Need for Cross Platform Updates Distribution Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Dan, Jason, Jeff, Olaf, Brad, etc Here is an idea for a cross-distribution single cd product sold/shipped by all ppc distributions: What we really need is a single updates CD to help bring recently shipped distributions up to date with the latest versions of things: Included on the disk would be: 1. openmotif with ppc patches and jdk motif bug fixes included + source 2. Jack Howarth's latest XFree 4.0 rpms + source 3. Xpmac latest with some recent updates from Ryuichi + source 4. Mozilla Milestone 16 (or the latest from the cvs tree) + source 5. Gnome Helix 1.2 rpms + source 6. KDE 2.0 Beta 2 rpms + source 7. Franz's latest gcc 2.93 rpms + source 8. Franz's latest binutils rpms + source 9. All of the security updates since the last release of each distribution + source 10. 2.2.16 kernel to fix latest kernel security issue + source 11. Binaries of JDK 1.1.8 final, JDK 1.2.2 final, jdk 1.3_beta + SCSL diffs 12. The latest Mac-On-Linux which will actually work under Mac OS 9.0.4 Plus possibly a selection of contributed RPMs + source (like R (the stats package), Jack's molecule viewer, etc). My idea is that the iso-image (identical) would be available from all distributions and also sold for some small fee by all distributions. I can create all of the JDK binaries, I am building the kde2 beta 2 stuff as I write this, I have all the GNOME Helix 1.2 binaries and srpms, Jack has the XFree 4.0 rpms and srpms with the latest G4/Rage 128 Pro fixes in place, I have the Xpmac source (and some changes from Ryuichi to integrate), I have access to alot of patches (both from Blackdown and Sun) that fix serious bugs in OpenMotif 2.1, Franz already has posted his latest tool chain, and Paul's 2.2.16 rsync kernel is available right now. I also have the cvs from last night of Mozilla and will build it this week. All of this would be available for some sort of joint effort to quickly get out an updates CD for everyone to use. What do people think? Is this stealing too much thunder from thenext distributions releases? If not, I say let's do it. Comments welcome! Kevin -- Kevin B. Hendricks Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A-3K7 CANADA khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca, (519) 661-3874, fax: 519-661-3959 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/